Today is Remembrance Day. Everyone in Amber Court take a moment of time to give honour and respect to all the people who have been part of World War. We’ve done this by taking time of silence, activities and artworks with the residents to commemorate our heroes.

Nigel Harmer, maintenance man at Abbey View, was very kind and proud to show us today his beautiful and very mindful medals. Remembrance Day- Lest We Forget

Today a group of residents made some dough sculptures. They added scents to them to engage the senses and added parts of leaves and plants to decorate them and to make a link to nature at a time of year when it’s not so easy to get outside.

Our lovely residents enjoyed bingo afternoon in the lounge, they enjoyed 3 games of bingo, we played for a line and then a full house on both games, everyone was really happy to be involved and was concentrating on the numbers so they didn't miss any, warm and cold drinks of their choice were served during bingo afternoon.

Some of our lovely residents enjoyed one to one activity's, we had a lovely chat and giggle, during the one to one our residents had a photo shoot. One of our ladies in the photographs enjoyed a nice facial and was really happy and quoted "it is nice to get a pamper"

We had a great afternoon dipping fruit in the chocolate fountain!

Firework Rockets!! Our lovely residents made some fantastic firework rockets today using a card roll, pipe cleaners, star stickers and a few other resources. They had such a giggle trying to peel and stick the stars down, the quote of the activity was "where's my star gone? Have you got my star?" We talked about their favourite fireworks and how they enjoyed spending Bonfire night when they were younger.

The lovely people who live at The Hawthorns made some finger print painted poppies which we turned into a field of poppies to remember and honour those who fell whilst defending our freedoms and protecting our way of life.  This is pride place when entering the home for everyone to see; staff, residents and families.

We remember them at The Hawthorns

It was a most enjoyable afternoon at Ashmead for Peggy's 100th birthday.  In addition to a birthday card from Queen Elizabeth 11 the home’s chef prepared a special birthday cake and staff and fellow residents helped celebrate the occasion by singing happy birthday to Peggy.

On Sugar Awareness Day, we chatted about sugar and its origin, we then played the game * how many teaspoons of sugar *  in a number of food items.

We had a lot of fun as always.